Forgive me, not sure if this is worth bringing up but just a few observations surrounding this tag; stubby_arms is an interesting tag that I think is underutilized, but it seems to be missing partner tags like "stubby_legs" or an umbrella tag "stubby_limbs". May also need some sort of way to differentiate it from "handless" or "footless" which seems to indicate that something which normally has these features, but is lacking them.

I’m pretty sure this is just the same thing as short_arms short_legs short_tail.

Alas, poor T-Rex, we knew ye well.

scaliespe said:
I’m pretty sure this is just the same thing as short_arms short_legs short_tail.

I disagree, the stubby_arms tag seems to imply the termination of the limb in a stub, rather than the actual length of the limbs. One can have short arms and hands, but that doesn't mean they're stubs. And the other way around (see profile pic.)

To further elaborate on the handless and similar tags, it seems to be used indicate missing limbs on amputees (or their robotic counterparts), or the incorrectly tagged handless_winged_arms / realistic_wings tags which basically just mean "this character doesn't have hands, instead they have wings." Overall the handless/footless tags are kinda amorphous and don't mean anything in particular right now.

eixxxo said:
I disagree, the stubby_arms tag seems to imply the termination of the limb in a stub, rather than the actual length of the limbs. One can have short arms and hands, but that doesn't mean they're stubs.

The issue with that definition is that “stubby” is often just a synonym for “short,” hence why stubby_tail was aliased to short_tail.

I could see there being a tag for limbs that end in a stub, however. Maybe arm_stubs would be better than stubby_arms?

scaliespe said:
The issue with that definition is that “stubby” is often just a synonym for “short,” hence why stubby_tail was aliased to short_tail.

I could see there being a tag for limbs that end in a stub, however. Maybe arm_stubs would be better than stubby_arms?

I might be arguing semantics, but I think the aliasing of stubby_tail to short_tail makes sense because there's generally not any other sort of appendage on the end of a tail, so a stubby tail would just imply that the tail is short. But arms and legs in particular have extra appendages, so to say that they are "stubby" would mean that the ends are stubs. Whether or not stubby_arms or arm_stubs is used seems kinda inconsequential, but they are notably different than short_arms which strictly implies length rather than how the arms terminate.

To get super semantics-like, I'd also argue that arm_stubs implies that the arms themselves are stubs (see the only image in that tag), rather than stubby_arms which implies that the arms have stubby qualities (see profile pic).

Then there's the issue of handless/footless seemingly having no proper definition as well. I think those tags could possibly be cleaned up and used to suggest the "stubby" qualities I'm referring to, unless the definition can be narrowed down/separated.